I'm a student, and I need to setup a Sharepoint server (in order to make it easier to collaborate on a group assignment over the holidays). Through MSDNAA I've got copies of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and Sharepoint Server 2010 x64, and installed Windows Server onto a spare machine.

When I try to install Sharepoint 2010 on my server it fails, stating that it can't configure the Application Server and IIS roles correctly. I've tried a few things to get it to work:

I installed IIS myself

I couldn't find the Application Server role, but Windows 7 is supported, so surely HPC Server can meet the prereqs too...

Are they compatible, or do I need to download an alternative server OS? If I need a different version, which would be the best option? (I don't need the server to do anything else, apart from maybe hosting a few low traffic static websites).